IntroductionThis edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer practices and theories.

Women Writers: A Zine is seeking previouslyunpublished essays and original works of fiction,poetry, and hypertext for an upcoming special issue,"Digital Eves: Transgression/ Transcendence inCyberspace." Women Writers: A Zine is a digital,peer-reviewed publication that features creative workby women writers as well as scholarship on any aspectof women's writing, women's studies, and feministscholarship. See the journal's Website atwww.womenwriters.net for more information.

The Ambrose Bierce Project (ABP) is a forthcoming hypermedia project hosted by Penn State University. As part of its initial phase, the ABP is seeking essays and literary briefs about the Civil War fiction and nonfiction war writings of Ambrose Bierce. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by ABP affiliates and by members of the advisory board, a collection of leading Bierce scholars.

Literary briefs will offer a critical perspective on a *single* Bierce story or work of nonfiction prose. Briefs should not exceed 2,000 words, but should include scholarly notes. Deadline: 5/1/05.

The Dance and New Media Project at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles is now accepting submissionsfor Volume 2 (2005) of Extensions: The Online Journalfor Embodied Technology. This volume of the journalwill be titled:

Science Fiction: one universe?Edited by Nick Heffernan and Lorna Jowett.

*Deadline now extended to 19 January 2005.

Having received preliminary interest from a publisher, we invite chapterproposals or already completed essays for a collection focusing on the rangeof different media within science fiction (film, television, literature,comics/ graphic novels, computer games).

We have received numerous inquiries on the submission of visual =representations of text. As such, nasty would like to extend the CFP to =include representation of text in image, image and text, and textual =studies of art forms apart from comics and graphic novels.

Here is the original CFP=20

nastyCall for Papers

Issue #15: Pics and Bits

In the Humanities, we long ago redefined the concept of "text" toinclude architecture, clothing, furniture, and any other materialobject, artistic or otherwise, that can be a vessel for narrative. It is

possible, in fact, that the printed word as we know it is merely a blipin the history of human communication.